Health for everyone, everywhere? - As service delivery falls short, Africans rank

Health care is a priority In 2001, the member countries of the African Union signed the Abuja Declaration, in which they agreed to spend at least 15% of their budgets each year on the health sector. [...] Because of the smaller sample sizes, the margin of error on the results reported for the presence of health clinics is higher than for findings captured in individual interviews. [...] As on the dimensions of absent medical personnel and long wait times, Sudan (92%) and Mali (28%) are the worst- and best- performing countries when it comes to the perceived condition of health facilities. [...] Regional coordination of national partners in about 35 countries is provided by the Ghana Center for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana), the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation (IJR) in South Africa, and the Institute for Development Studies (IDS) at the University of Nairobi in Kenya. [...] Institute of Peace, the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation via the World Bank Think Africa Project, the Mo Ibrahim Foundation, the Open Society Foundations - Africa, Luminate, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Mastercard Foundation, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the European Union Commission, the World Bank Group, the Ministry o.